Transfer Tivo TV shows to HTC Windows Phone 8X from a Mac Computer

People who often use Tivo box to record TV shows may also want to transfer Tivo recordings to their HTC Windows Phone 8X, so as to watch exciting ball matches or TV series on the big display anywhere anytime. However, Tivo format is so unusual that HTC Windows Phone 8X can't play it successfully.

In the following guide I would like to share with you how to get your TiVo recordings ready for HTC Windows Phone 8X. In order to enjoy TiVo recordings on HTC Windows Phone 8X, you got to transfer TiVo to your Mac and then convert the TiVo files to HTC Windows Phone 8X compatible formats.

1. Transfer TiVo recordings to Mac (or MacBook)
Once you’ve recorded your favorite shows on your TiVo box, you can transfer them to your Mac with certain software as long as your TiVo box is connected to your home network. Although the TiVo Desktop software for the Mac (supplied by TiVo) does not allow user to transfer TiVo recordings to Mac, there are other freeware can accomplish this task, like the TiVoDecode Manager. Run the app, enter your TiVo's IP address in the TiVo IP Address box. Next click the Prefs button in the lower-right corner. Fill in the Media Access Key. A list of shows on your TiVo will appear in the Now Playing list. Select the show and click Add Show To Queue. The selected show now appears in the Download Queue list. Click Download Location to select where you want to save it. The app allows you to convert TiVo shows to MPEG-4 video for iPod. Of course you can play these TiVo shows with QuickTime Player. To convert the recordings for iPad, you can use Pavtube Video Converter for Mac.

2. Convert TiVo recordings to to HTC Windows Phone 8X compatible formats.
There are too many converting tools on market, yet few do convert TiVo files. A recommended one is Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, which converts TiVo files as well as HD footages, Flash videos, Matroska container format, etc.

Step 2: Select an output format for HTC Windows Phone 8X 3 etc.Click on the pull down menu of "Format" and then tap "Common Video", after that, "H.264 Video (*.mp4)" works well for HTC Windows Phone 8X.

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters
You are allowed to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the popup window to optimize the output file quality. Following are the recommended settings to get best playback quality.